Erich von Stroheim Quotes & Sayings

“I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.”

“If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.”

“And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.”

“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”

“The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.”

“Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.”

“In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.”

“For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.”

“I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.”

“I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.”